Andr? van Toly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >That is probably because that Multicast spawns a thread for every node
> >change received. So when you are doing lots of node changes it gets
> >bogged down.
> 
> My point exactly: When you save a complicated 
> EditWizard (f.e. a news wizard with related 
> images, urls, mediasources etc.) all nodes that 
> were opened in the wizard are considered changed 
> and will be multicasted over all the MMBase 
> instances that share the same cloud. Resulting in 
> a huge number of Multicast threads etc.


There are more problems with multicast:

- IIRC a multicast is not garanteed to be received

- multicast can only be done within the same subnet, while this is not true
  for the database connection. So, if you run 2 mmbase's on the same database,
  but in a different network, multicast cannot be used to synchronize the
  caches.

So, perhaps there needs to be a small project who offers an alternative for
multicast. Perhaps using RMI or so. It should then of course also consider
this Thread issue.


Michiel



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